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THE
POTTING
SHED
EDITOR’S LETTER
Well, it’s Halloween again! How quickly did that come round? In
this edition we pay a courteous welcome to Halloween festivities
and a celebration with children and animals!
Talking about festivities… if you really want to know, there are 61
days left to Christmas at the time of writing this editorial and that
translates as 5,240,789 seconds until Christmas! And the really good news
of course…… is there will be considerably less than that by the
time you get to read this.
Panic Ye Not! There is help at hand….. This year I am running an art
& crafts stall at the Newhampton Road, Arts Centre on Sunday
December 9th to raise funds to keep the crafts groups going. I
understand Maureen will also have a stall there too. This has
inspired me to set up a digital ‘Crafts Fayre’ online for all our
Potting Shed artisans. Every week between now and Christmas week,
I shall be updating and adding new art cards, jewellery and crafts
items made by our artisan community, for Christmas Gifts with a
difference! So if you want to email any details of your arts & crafts
across to me, to put online into the Christmas Fayre Please let me
know. There is a paypal facility available.
www.PottingShed.Online/index.php/CraftFair
Please check out our link regularly and support our artisans.
Remember 10% of our sales is tithed to supporting craft groups
with vulnerable and valuable communities.
Well, we’re all going to be pretty busy in the run up to Winter
Solstice / Christmas /New Year, so I am hoping to
get the next edition out for the New Year when we
can all put our feet up and catch up with ourselves!
A FREE Bi-Monthly Ezine dedicated
to Creative Thinkers & Do-ers
October 2018 Halloween Edition
INSIDE
THIS
ISSUE PG. 2
Amerdeep takes you on her
meditation travel guide,
‘Wish you were here’ 2
PG 5
Maureen wraps us in
‘Angel’ Wings!
PG 7
Feature Article: Pat’s Garden.. Alive! Lin
& Billy share a story of strange
synchronicity and ‘New Beginnings’.
Also inside this issue:
Regular features: Chill out zone; monthly
competition; Heal With Cards; Inner Child
corner; Kitchen Pharmacy; Home; Nature
Speaks and more…..
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THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
NORTHGATE,
HIGH TOWN,
BRIDGNORTH
WV6 4EP
WISH YOU WERE HERE?
A meditational travel guide By Amerdeep
In this series, I introduce you to some special places where you can
walk and meditate. Through my writings and pictures, I hope you
get a sense of what these places are like. I will be your eyes and
ears
WELCOME BACK TO THE SECOND EDITION OF
‘WISH YOU WERE HERE’:
Did you try the walking meditation from the last article? How did you
get on?
This piece is dedicated to Autumn walks meditations.
What's your favourite season? Mine is definitely Autumn. There is
something almost magical about the way the leaves fall from the trees.
Watch them bounce on the pavement and dancing with the wind.
Links to Amerdeeps
meditational photos are
available from www.PottingShed.Online/index.php/amerdeep
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I love walking in autumn. I love feeling the crunch of the leaves
underfoot.
This autumn walk takes place in Bridgnorth. It's a hop skip and a jump
away from Wolverhampton. On an easy bus route too, plenty of parking
if you drive.
I start at the old curiosity shop and walk past the tram on the Ieft.
There is a stone wall on your right. As you carry on walking you'll see it
has wooden doors cut into the side. Hmmm…… now I love a good
mystery and my imagination runs wild. I long to see what's on the other
side but no amount of peering through a small hole in one of the doors
reveals anything to satisfy my curiosity.
Ivy on the walls. It adds to the quirky appeal of this place.
I completely follow the path ahead. You can sit on one of the benches
on route and take a moment. Enjoy the view, breathe it in
➢ Tip: breathe in and out. Imagine your lungs and tummy filling up
with air, pause and release.
➢ Tip: Close your eyes listen to the winds. Today they are fierce,
yet the sun is shining, so it's still warm. Listen to the wind
rustling in the trees, the leaves scuttling on the path and feel
the sun on your face.
Acorns littering the floor.
You'll notice the cute paths leading to the lower part of town. Follow
one if you wish, it's your journey.
You'll come to a stop at a wider clearing of the path that has a view
over the Severn valley railway and more hills. Opposite this is an
entrance to a small park that leads to the castle ruins.
I walk up to the steps and happily greet my peaceful place. The last
time I was here I sat on a bench and a little robin came out to say
hello.
I wonder what magic the park holds today?
The magnificent majestic trees sway in the wind, making a sound as if
they're talking to each other, an ancient language people can't hear
anymore.
The park slopes up and there are different paths to take. They converge
to the same point...the castle ruins.
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➢ Tip: Explore mindfully. How? Be in the moment. Look, listen and
concentrate on your breathing if it helps.
To the left is views over Shropshire hills. In the middle a well and a
small bridge. To your right you'll see the ruins and a path to the church.
➢ Tip: Stop and look around you. What do you see? What beauty
surrounds you?
I see a beautiful array of colour from the flower beds that are exploding
with colour, to the rainbow colours of the trees. They go from red to
green to yellow to orange. Magnificent.
The sunlight filtering through the trees and creating shadows on the
grass.
This garden must hold meaning for people. It's so peaceful. There are
benches dedicated to people long gone. An old couple sit on a bench
quietly looking at the garden.
There's a man with his grandchildren, he's watching the little girl run
around.
There are people walking their dogs.
Star rating: **** 4.
Beautiful. A really special place with
bags of history, charm and magic.
*Please let me know of your
experience with this meditation.
Email me with your star rating on
getting out to visit these places is
difficult, you can use the images to
picture yourself there.
Meet Amerdeep on
http://www.PottingShed.Online/index.php/amerdeep
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Meet Maureen on http://www.PottingShed.Online/index.php/maureen
The Plant, pictured is now in its winter residence in ‘The Potting Shed’.
The plant name is SENECIO ‘ANGEL WING’
MEETINGS WITH ANGELS
By Maureen
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WRAPPED IN ANGEL’S WINGS! BY MAUREEN
The word ’Angel’ is frequently around us in our daily lives, for example – Angel fish, Angels Trumpet (birthday
flower for October 1st) - ‘the flower resembles the robes of their namesakes and herald joy’. We have Angel Hair
products, Angels Delight – strawberry my favourite! Statues are in churchyards and Angel statues available to
purchase. Belief by some people, Angels do exist and Angels are mentioned within Spiritual poems and within
Scriptures. When a good deed is done it maybe said ‘Oh! ‘You’re an Angel’
So what is an Angel?
The word ‘Angel’ derives from the Greek word angelos meaning messenger. Angels are often viewed as the
personification of God’s will and are depicted with wings to signify their celestial origins. Along with our guardian
angels, there are a variety of angels that guard us, heal us and minister to many different needs in the Universe.
They are divided into nine orders; Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominations, Virtues, Powers, Principalities,
Archangels and Angels.
There are also elemental spirits - Devas, Fairies, Gnomes and Elves that, act as Angels to the plant kingdom, and
watch over all nature.
I would have enjoyed adding a poem, ‘Tenants of Life’s Garden from ‘The flowers in Life’s Garden’ by John
Osbourne, unfortunately there is Copyright to consider, but if anyone would like to read it, I’ll make sure I have
the book with me when next in ‘Pats Garden’
EDITOR’S NOTE:
I have in the past shared a story with Pat’s Garden LifeScapers who were interested, about a time in my
life (about 16 years ago), when I was in a challenging situation and had to make a decision to give up
my healing centre. I couldn’t see how the work, that I was so passionate about, could possible carry on.
Until one day that is, when I was putting some things from the Centre into the garage at my home. At
this point I asked with my heart and mind “What should I do now?” Now. this isn’t the first time in my
life that words came and synchronicites followed. At this point the words that echoed through me and
around me said: “When you can’t see your way around a situation, through it, or over it, then change the
way you see it.”
I did that very thing. I looked at my garage and then converted it into a healing studio with some money I
had left over from the sale of my property. The healing work continued and still does until this day!
BEFORE. When angels spoke AFTER. When an Angel appeared.
DOES ANYONE HAVE
AN ‘ANGEL’ STORY
TO SHARE?
Please email to
Editor@Pottingshed.
Online
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WHEN PAT’S GARDEN CAME ALIVE : By Lin & Billy
It was over a year ago, when I ran the first Pat’s Garden Workshop at
Equinox. Billy drew a LifeScape Pat’s Garden and what a story it told! The
future zone passed through an arch into a beautiful house and garden,
where she and her family were so happy.
Follow up drawings were done in which flower beds, meditation houses and
trees were prominent. Wind chimes denoting a move in the future zone,
appeared in an oracle card reading.
A few months passed by and Billy went on a sunny June, family day outing to
Sandwell Valley. On that day she experienced some amazing synchronicities.
Imagine my amazement when she posted a picture of a Well that she had taken that
day. The Well had the words “Pat’s Garden 2012” written on it. 2012 of course,
heralded the start of a new era. Other synchronicities happened that day too. Billy
also took a picture of the sky and saw a portal open (a hidden rainbow, although it
wasn’t raining!) Alongside that a lace border had been drawn across the sky that
merged into her drawing of previous months past.
By this time, she was receiving direction and guidance that she was to move home.
Her guides told her to “Wait a while”. Time zones collapsed and merged for Billy
during this process and in what seems a miraculous period of time, she and her
family found themselves in a dream home with a garden, more beautiful than
words could describe.
Billy researched the history of her beautiful garden and invited me and my camera over
to record the magic and hear the story. Just to summarise, her beautiful garden was a
very famous garden. It was nationally renowned for its amazing collection of rare and
beautiful trees and plants, that the previous owner had planted with
her husband many years ago and had since passed over. Her name? Pat!
This magical place is where Billy spends her spare time now and
shares her wonderful pictures on the Pat’s Garden App. The garden is
huge and planted out with some of the rarest and most beautiful
plants, I have ever seen. Not to mention a Well….. and Meditation
houses… and Willow trees and……..
Needless to say, the Faerie realm put in an appearance on the day of
that visit. The realm are very protective of their babies and children and
usually they are not shown to the human realm, for obvious reasons.
However on that day, a beautiful Faerie creature appeared, holding out
her baby and with a message of :
“ New beginnings.”
The Well that Billy found
in Sandwell Valley in
June
The portal in the sky that
Billy photographed that
day.
Meditation House that was in Billy's Pat's
Garden drawing in November 2017 and was
manifested in her Own Pat' Garden home in
August 2018
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Now Billy and I had previously and tentatively spoken of running a
herbal course from Equinox. But the time had now come and after
the visit to ‘A Pat’s Garden’, for the next 3 days I was constantly
connecting with one of my guides. A 16th Century Herbalist, who
I hadn’t worked with for many years, since I ran my Healing Centre
in Penn and who had guided me through creating essences and
photographic portals.
To cut a very long story short, the information that I have been
given, is the structure of not only a new way of working with the
healing power of plants, but also, a new ( or rather very old way),
of learning through the Akashic records. This led to producing an
intuitive holistic herbal course. Like no other programme before it,
and I have produced and accredited so many, through my years
as an educational consultant. This
programme will now be run from
Billy’s amazing new garden and the
overlooking ‘garden room’ and will
start in the New Year!
New Beginnings. A Faerie Realm
being, showing her infant in her
arms.
Spirit lights dancing around the Well in
Billy's new Garden
An incredible portal in the new garden,
that when you walk through, well you have
just entered the new zone, leaving
everything that held you back behind you!
Meet Billy on:
http://www.Pottingshed.On
line/index.php/billy
Details of the new intuitive
herbalism programme can
be downloaded from this
page
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“I particularly enjoy creating ‘Faerie pot
pourri’ containers. These are small baskets
or garden metaphor ornaments, that can be
left appropriately around the home.
I also wear ‘ LifeScape’ jewellery designs. These
contain mini pot pourri blends which are ideal to
wear when connecting with the nature realm for
meditations with the ‘Nature Speaks’ cards.”
See our artisan range of Christmas designs on:
www.PottingShed.Online/index.php/craftfayre
Meet Lin on
http://www.PottingShed.Online/index.php/linda
HOME FEATURE BY LIN
A POT POURRI for CHRISTMAS
This feature is about bringing nature into
the home. Flowers are expensive this time
of year and it always more gratifying to
utilise what you have at hand. A good habit
to get into is to dry flowers from your own
garden. This can make the base of a
beautiful seasonal pot pourri.
Here is how you can make a bowl of pot
pourri for Christmas:
In a small bowl, place 2 teaspoons
cinnamon powder and ½ teaspoon of
grated nutmeg. Add 6 drops of your
favourite essential oils. (I use tree oils for
this e.g. pine, frankincense, cypress,
eucalyptus, sandalwood or cedarwood etc.)
Add some fixative (to hold the scent) 25g /
1oz of orris root powder). Thoroughly mix
the spices, oils and fixative between your
fingers,like rubbing fat into flour!
(Bake Off – eat your heart out!)
In a separate bowl, place approx 1 litre of
dried flower petals, flower heads; 25g
dried lavender; 20z mixed sweet herbs;
½ teaspoon of whole cloves; ¼ vanilla pod.
Pour the mixture of fixative, spices and oils
into the bowl that holds the dry ingredients.
Mix together thoroughly .Place the mixture
into an air tight container and leave in a
dark place for approximately six weeks.
Shaking the container regularly.
After this time transfer the pot pourri mix
into a decorative bowl.Decorate with flower
heads, dried fruits, nuts, seeds, twigs, etc
Sprinkle with glitter or seasonal decorations
for a lovely Christmas display
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‘A HALLOWEEN SPECIAL FEATURE’ FOR THE INNER CHILD? BY LIN
Animals have always played such a wonderful and significant part of my
life, as well as providing so much inspiration for my writing and art work,
especially with children!
In this edition, I just had to include one of my seasonal specials from
when one of my ‘Dyanmic duo’ decided to ‘act out’ on Halloween!
When I set up a centre in Glastonbury 10 years ago, part of it was an
animal sanctuary where I came by my pet rescue pig, Daisy, when she was
only a baby! She came home with me when I returned to
Wolverhampton. She also enjoyed Halloween!
Here is a link to one of the films that Daisy and I made together on
‘Trick or Treat!’
https://youtu.be/qcuL5Fl4tnE
I hope you enjoy it!
I have attached below a ‘Daisy Halloween story’ for young children.
There is also a set of instructions on how to make a zipper /bag charm / keyring with your child that
accompanies this little story. If anyone would like more
information on this or other children’s projects: please email
me at: [email protected]
Inspire the inner Child - Always best when read with a child!
DAISY’S HALLOWEEN
When all is dark and very quiet,
Daisy goes to sleep at night.
This is when she starts to dream
Of spiders, bats and Halloween.
Lin had told her she might meet
Girl Cat, pretending to be totally Halloween Scary!
And this is what she does to her brother, when she
thinks I'm not looking!
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Some special friends for ‘Trick or Treat’.
BUT….Eating ‘spiders’ makes ‘inside tickle’,
Though very nice with Branston Pickle.
Bats look tasty as they fly high,
But catching them? …. When Pigs Don’t Fly?
SO….
in Daisy’s dreams she sorts it out,
Finding cobwebs with her ‘Daisy Snout’.
Catching bats proves more tricky.
Unless they land in something sticky?
So, with sticky honey and a bit of luck……..
A passing bat might just get stuck!
Something new for Daisy to eat!
Now, that would be a Trick AND Treat!
……Perhaps a witch will fly past soon,
A black cat riding on her broom.
Daisy’s friends are two black cats.
They’d look good in tall black hats.
AND……
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As Daisy’s dreams just float away,
She wakes up to a brand new day,
There Is NO food! This is NOT funny,
As Daisy listens to her tummy.
“Only dreams!” Poor Daisy sighs
THEN…..
Then she can’t believe her eyes,
Lin left her a great surprise.
A Halloween dish FULL of pumpkin pies!
This story makes a beautiful printed out card. You can ask your child to draw a picture of Daisy Pig for the cover and print out
the story inside. You can also make an art project to go with it.
A download of the art /craft project relating to this story, to make with a child is available. Please email
[email protected] and I will send you the link.
Meet Lin on http://www.PottingShed.Online/index.php/linda
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THE ‘CHILL OUT’ ZONE BY LINDA
I have included here another peaceful slice of inspiration! Taking Time out Activity:
Taken from the Pat’s’ Garden: Oracle pack: Here is the cottage card. This seems particularly relevant as
we head into the season of colder weather, busier days and darker nights.
The cottage metaphor card represents a structure and a foundation in life. It can denote an idyllic
opportunity or time out from life’s hustle and bustle.
Perhaps there is a need for a holiday or time out
being indicated by this card? Perhaps a longing to
escape from a particular situation and be in a
secure, protected and healing environment?
As this metaphor represents a structure,
foundation, protection and security, it can also
denote an opportunity for cottage industry and
achieving a vision to successfully work from home.
‘LifeScape’ Artisans take note!!
The pathway traversing the front of the picture and may well signify that we need to come off our pathway
at this point, to enjoy this time out . We can come back and re-join the direction in which we need to go
later. The flowers signify the gifts that this time would bring to us.
It is interesting to note that the cottage is called ‘Willow Cottage’. Willow heals past hurts and resentments
and thoughts / feelings that linger around issues of ‘unfairness’ and injustice.
It would tell us that time spent in relationship with nature is indicated, along with opportunities to relax and
appreciate beauty and to focus on the needs of oneself for a while. This is always relevant in the run up to
the Christmas season.
Christmas time can often challenge us when we might get stuck in an over romanticised and nostalgic view of
the past, which can prevent us from making the most of present circumstances. Often our feelings can block
us from getting past this.
This meditation might be helpful:
https://youtu.be/IiQK4T0PCpE
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BY Linda
This is taken from the Pat’ Garden: Scented Garden workshop run on 29th October at Equinox Wolverhampton
HONEY FACE MASK:
From a scented garden! Well from Maureen’s scented garden to be precise. If you have never tried any
of Maureen’s home made honey then you have missed a trick and once you do, you won’t be
disappointed, I assure you. Apart from eating Maureen’s honey in my home made muesli every day,
which is extremely beneficial nutritionally, I get my beeswax from her as well for my artwork and also
making herbal ointments and salves. Sourcing good local honey can be a
challenge, but it is so worthwhile pursuing the good cause, especially if you
get hay fever. Local honey is worked by local bees in local areas (forgive the
nod to an old TV comedy sketch here!).
So the thing is….. once this is processed into the honey, it will help to
desensitise you to local pollens next season, if you take it regularly. Obviously
you are not advised to follow this regime if you have a severe reaction to
honey or any bee products! If you are unsure, you can always do a ‘spot’
test. Rub enough honey to cover a 5p piece on the inside of your elbow.
Leave it on for 3-4 hours. If you have any redness or itchiness come up,
then DO NOT use it. For those who know kinesiology techniques, of course
will get your answer much quicker.
A honey face mask is a great beauty treatment and excellent for your skin if
you follow a regular beauty routine with it.
Honey is ‘humectant’, this means that it draws water to itself, helping to keep
your skin moisturised. It is also anti- bacterial, anti-fungal, anti- viral and
therefore an ideal facial treatment.
Here’s how:
• You will need to use about 1 tablespoonful of honey.
Apply this to your face after cleansing. Start by dabbing some on your forehead and on both cheeks. Slowly
begin to massage this into your skin, taking care around the eye area. Massage your face for a couple of
minutes to help the circulation and then let the mask set for at last 5 minutes, before washing it off. Ideally,
leave it to sit for about 15 – 20 minutes.
An excellent opportunity then to take time out, read a book; write a novel, paint a masterpiece, compose a
symphony ?
KITCHEN PHARMACY FEATURE
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In the sixteenth century manuscript of
the 'Tractattus de Herbis’, by
Dioscorides, A woman is shown
collecting honey for medicinal use!
Looks like an early form of the
honey face mask??
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Here’s a meditation routine to focus you, whilst you apply the treatment:
LET’S FACE IT
OUR FACE:
This is the side to ourselves that we never see, but everyone else does.
It mirrors our inside world to our outside world of family, friends,
colleagues and strangers.
This is the interface between our inner and outer worlds.
How many times in a day do we put on a brave face? Face up to things? Or turn the other cheek?
Our face cannot lie – It contains 10 different groups of muscles, which are unlike any other in your
body, as they are attached to the skin so that you can change your expression with just a slight
muscle movement. All of these muscles are working together, to mirror back to those around us
the joys, tribulations, pain and triumph of life.
Every fleeting second of the day, our face captures and reflects our unique expression of
humanity’s experience.
What is that we first remember about people? What do we photograph? THE FACE!
So now we can take time to honour this precious gift.
Please use the Honey Face Mask, prepared by thousands of bees with love
and dedicated to you, to honour the love that your face portrays within you.
Use it regularly and as you rub it into your skin, mentally thank and
emotionally respect (Respect means to: LOOK AGAIN) at the wonderful work
that your face achieves each day.
With your fingertips, gently ease out the cares and concerns, worries, pressures and tensions of
the day.
Replace them with the warmth and tenderness that your gentle fingertips radiate through the
honey face mask and allow the sensation to absorb in to your skin.
And repeat the following words either in your mind or out loud.
“Thank you for facing the world for me
And radiating the love within, to those without.
Thank you for sensing so much beauty
That surrounds and enfolds my every doubt.”
Repeat this at least once a week before bedtime for 4 weeks and see what happens!
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A PREVIEW OF OUR ONLINE CRAFT FAYRE.
Please note that items are added weekly and updated until the week before Christmas by our Pat’ Garden
LifeScape artisans. We also have a paypal facility
MAUREEN has got a GOOD EYE for Christmas gifts with a difference! Her latest collection may help you to
GOGGLE rather than GOOGLE your EYE DEAL gift for someone this Christmas
More Information on Maureen’s latest collection is available from her page:
http://www.PottingShed.Online/index.php/maureen
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Following on from the Encaustic art meditation feature last month, Maureen has included a recent piece of
‘Encaustic’ art, dedicated to Remembrance Day. The artwork contains RED only, regarding remembrance and
intuitive thoughts of ‘our troops’.
What can you see in this artwork?
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An update from Maureen:
When you look at it from this
point of view:
There is a helmeted soldier, bottom
left and through the porthole a
sinking ship, the stars (below) in
the poppies represent loved ones
in spirit, looking down on their
loved ones.
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REGULAR COMPETITION FEATURE:
Congratulations to Angela Aranda for winning the New Subscription of the month Prize of a FREE Pat’s Garden
interpretation report and focus LifeScape Jewellery. As soon as I can discover how Amanda found us, her
sponsor will receive their piece of themed Autumn LifeScape Jewellery
The purpose of our Ezine is to inspire like-minded fellow creatives to collaborate with their inner child
moments and engage in creative expression and thinking outside of the box!
The Potting Shed carries that message to share and empower. It also showcases the creative outcomes of
our contributors and for each purchase you make through this site and our sister sites www.jewellery.Life
and www.HealWithCards.com 10% of the sales are donated to support vulnerable craft groups…
Anyone interested in setting up and running a craft group within the community, please contact me on:
So…… we have a win / win / win potentially happening now. But for this to take off, we need to have as
many subscribers / new contributors as possible for our next edition, due out at Christmas.
Please encourage all your friends and family to subscribe by emailing [email protected] and include
a reference with your initials in it and the word Pottingshed. E.g. for me, my friend would email
‘LPPottingShed.’ The person who gets the most subscribers will win the themed Pat’s Garden LifeScape
jewellery for the month!
There will also be a draw that all new subscribers will be entered for. The prize for them will be a free
Pat’s Garden consultation and matching piece of LifeScape jewellery. I shall ask Billy to pull out the winner
for the draw and the results will be in the next edition.
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE FOR FUTURE EDITIONS AT [email protected]
WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK AND WHAT FEATURES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE
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